This blog will post detailed news items about GLBT issues. Some of the issues include the "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and gay marriage. Please note that my main website is DOASKDOTELL.COM (link on my Profile).

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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Saturday, September 05, 2015

A few skewed legal authorities are claiming that marriage
licenses issued in Rowan County Kentucky yesterday are worthless without Davis’s
signature.

On the other hand, Davis’s attorney is saying that the
legislature or governor could change the law so that a marriage license is
treated like a deed, and that only the seal of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is
required, not the personal signature of the Clerk.

While that change may sound innocuous and unobjectionable
(and fall in line with my old theory “The Area of Mutual Agreement” in my
DADT-1 book), many government jobs are predicated on the personal authority of
someone who signs a document. The same
is true in many industries, like banking.

For example, note in the picture above how a local
government treasurer uses his own name on documents. This is like the Facebook “no double lives
allowed” issue.

This case is roughly parallel to my own “conflict of
interest” problem in the 1990s, when I was working for a company that
specialized in serving members of the military, but wanted to fight the
military ban in public with my book, as I detail on a Wordpress post here. One idea very important to this
narrative is that one should not have direct authority over others (as in the
workplace) and the power to make decisions (personally) that can affect others,
and still be active broadcasting one’s views in
public without the supervision of a “gatekeeper”.

Religious conservatives and some GOP pundits claim that the
courts are “persecuting” Christians. But
there is no right to use one’s authority from a public office to impose one’s
convictions on others. That could pose a problem for someone’s whose
implementation of religion requires him or her to “minister” to others in all
areas of life. Furthermore, not all Christians
would agree with Davis’s invocation of scripture, and other religions besides
Christianity object to gay marriage.

The Washington Post has an article by Robert Barnes and
Katie Zezima, “Legally, ‘God’s authority’ is a tough issue”, link here.

Update: September 8, 2015

Kim Davis has been released from jail today, but it is not yet clear what happens next. But she was told not to interfere with her office's issuing the marriage licenses by subordinates.

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